Quaker in love [graphic].

Description

Title: Quaker in love [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A Quaker fondling a woman's exposed breasts outside a house or brothel. Above and leaning from a balcony are two other women watching the couple with amusement. On the left walks another Quaker who appears shocked or surprised by the proceedings. A sign placed in the garden of the house warns of man traps within the grounds."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from the Royal Collection Trust online catalogue.
Date assigned by curator.
Three lines of verse on either side of title: I love you, would move you ... Concent then, relent then, and take an upright Quaker.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.8 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Quakers
Courtship
Subjects: Quakers
Courtship
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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